Geoffroy Bessaud

Geoffroy Bessaud is Associate Vice-President, in charge of anti-counterfeiting coordination activities at Sanofi. He started his career as a sales representative with ICI Pharmaceuticals, then joined Sanofi Pasteur and Sanofi where he became successively International Product manager, Marketing Director, Business Unit Manager, managing diverse programs in the USA, Europe, Latin America and Asia, with positions successively based in France, Italy, and Asia. He then joined Sanofi Corporate Communications as a spokesperson, also managing key global partnerships with Communications and Media Buying Agencies. Geoffroy is a Pharmacist by training and handles a MBA from HEC Business School (France).more

Dino Djelil

Dino is Integration Architect at GSK with 16 years experience in the Pharmaceutical Industry. Over the past four years Dino has led the integration architecture, design, and build of all serialisation interfaces within GSK’s internal systems as well as external CMOs and customer serialisation partners. Through a strong understanding of GS1 standards Dino has been very active in aligning GSK’s messages to one common standard . Dino is a key decision-maker in the Integration requirements for Brazil, China and Korea.more

Dr. Eric Noehrenberg

Director, Regional Market Access LeadShire

Eric Noehrenberg has been an expert in anti-counterfeiting since 2002 speaking at many international conferences on this issue. AsDirector at the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers & Associations (IFPMA) for ten years, Dr Noehrenberg promoted collaboration among the World Health Organization, the generics industry, the self-medication industry and the R&D based industry to raise awareness of the menace to public health which counterfeit medicines raises. He is now Regional Market Access Director at Shire Pharmaceuticals.more

Glen Hodgson

Head of HealthcareGS1 UK

Glen is Head of Healthcare for GS1 UK and a member of the GS1 Global Healthcare Leadership Team. With more than 15 years’ experience in a variety of senior commercial and operational roles within the healthcare and pharmaceutical industries, Glen has a broad range of expertise having re-engineered supply chains, developed and implemented enterprise-wide homecare strategies and formed national clinical nursing teams as well as leading multi-hundred million pound business units.
Outside of GS1, Glen’s main hobby is supporting London’s greatest football team.more

Bob Peeters

IPM Private Sector – Senior ManagerWCO

Since 2015, Bob Peeters joined the World Customs Organisation (WCO) IPM Private Sector team as the Senior Manager. The WCO is the only intergovernmental organization exclusively focused on customs issues and is composed of 180 countries, representing 98% of the world trade.
Bob is responsible for the promotion of the IPM Tool amongst the Private Sector with his global team. He is also involved in the expansion of the IPM Connected programme, which mainly focuses on collaborating with authentication and track & trace technologies.
Prior to the WCO, Bob was working in the EMEA and APAC IT and telecom industry, focusing amongst others on security and integrity aspects of national and global networksmore

John McKeon

Technical DirectorPortalis Ltd

John has enjoyed over 20 years as an engineer in the international market place. His experience spans several major sectors in engineering and technology, among them; avionics, material composition, electrical and electronic engineering and design, systems design and most recently in leading design changes and technological innovation in the pharmaceutical sector.more

Stephen Wilkins

SecretaryChild Safe Packaging Group

Stephen Wilkins was educated at Blackrock College, Dublin and The University of Durham Business School where he obtained a Masters Degree in Business Administration. He is a Chartered Scientist, Chartered Environmentalist, Fellow of the Institute of Materials, Minerals & Mining, an elected member of the Institute of Packaging and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was appointed Chief Executive of the Child-Safe Packaging Group upon its formation in 1995 and has driven its activities since then. The Child-Safe Packaging Group has been responsible for the design and development of numerous new child resistant packaging designs, both flexible and rigid packs. Stephen Wilkins advises manufacturers on the development of CR packaging, on the need for that packaging and in more general terms he advises clients on strategic marketing issues, usually associated with packaging and its semiotics. In addition he acts for a number of other clients in the UK undertaking marketing communications consultancy and parliamentary liaison.more

Adrian Tudway

Head of OperationsCrimestoppers Trust

Adrian is Head of Operations at Crimestoppers Trust, a Charity set up in 1986 in the aftermath of the Broadwater Farm riots in North London. Adrian began his career in public service in the Royal Marines and later joined the Metropolitan Police. He was promoted to Detective Chief Inspector in 2004 and then to Detective Chief Superintendent in January 2010. Seconded to the Home Office in January 2012, initially as Chief of Staff to Keith Bristow QPM, Director General of the National Crime Agency (NCA) & subsequently within the Office for Security & Counter Terrorism (OSCT) as Senior Advisor & subject matter expert on the Confidential Unit Operating Model project, building a new national intelligence structure for the UK within the NCA & Regional Organised Crime Units. Adrian is 52 years old, married to Diane, a DCI & homicide SIO in the MPS. He has two grandchildren & lives in the Home Counties.more

Andreas Brandt

Business Development ManagerBaumer hhs GmbH

Business Development Manager at Baumer hhs GmbH in Krefeld Germany. Responsible for new applications and Pharma – Tamper Evidence. Member of CEN/TC 261/WG12 “Marking” which is the normative committee handling the regulation for Tamper verification features.more

Alastair Taylor

Regional Sales Manager,Systech International

Alastair Taylor is the Regional Sales Manager for Systech International, based in England. With a background in Track and Trace solutions and programs within the food and beverage industry Alastair brings a different perspective to Systech’s customers. Alastair helps Systech’s customers identify and implement solutions that fulfil their anti-counterfeiting needs.more

Steve Allen

Freelance Investigator

Detective Officer in Hampshire and seconded to S.O.C.A in 2001.
– Received a Commendation from Bill Hughes the Director on the National Crime Squad for an IPR case
– Received a personal award from Bill Gates in respect of the above case
– Worked in the Pharma industry for Pfizer for 9 years as their Senior Security Director for the EMEA region, based in UK and Turkey
– Pfizer Manager of the year in 2013more

Ewan Townsend

AssociateArnold & Porter (UK) LLP

Ewan Townsend is a solicitor at Arnold & Porter. He assists clients in the life sciences sector on broad range of regulatory matters that arise throughout the life cycle of medicinal products and medical devices. Ewan also supports clients in drafting and negotiating commercial agreements, with particular expertise in licensing, manufacturing and distribution.more

Mike Isles

Executive DirectorEuropean Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines

Mike is Executive Director of the European Alliance for Access to Safe Medicines (EAASM) and the Alliance for Safe Online Pharmacy in the EU (ASOP EU) which are pan-European patient safety organisations, bringing together all concerned with eliminating falsified medicines from the supply chain as well as working to eliminate unsafe medical practices that cause patient harm.more

Aaron Barzey

CEOADB Medical

Aaron Barzey has been a private consultant within the pharmaceutical industry for over 10 years, contracting with Eli Lilly, Covance (CRO), Sanofi Aventis, Novartis, Johnson & Johnson, Celgene, Reckitt Benckiser, GSK, Martindale Pharmaceuticals and RB Pharmaceuticals, now known as Indivior. During this time he has covered medical affairs, pharmacovigilance and regulatory affairs in a multitude of therapeutic areas.more

Andrew Love

VP Capability DevelopmentBe4ward Ltd

Andrew is currently a Vice President at Be4ward Ltd, assisting a number of Pharmaceutical clients with packaging management related engagements. Prior to this, Andrew led GlaxoSmithkline’s (GSK) global packaging design operations until 2009, where he was responsible for the transformation of their capabilities into a best in class operation. He recently co-authored a new book, Developing and Sustaining Excellent Packaging Labelling and Artwork Capabilities. He holds a Masters in Mechanical Engineering and an MBA and has worked in the global Pharma supply chain for more than 20 years.more

Mark Davison

Principal Consultant & CEOBlue Sphere Health

Mark Davison is CEO of Blue Sphere Health Ltd (“Bluesphere”) a UK healthcare consultancy focusing on traceability and authentication of medicines. His 25 years of drug industry experience includes GlaxoSmithKline, contract research organisations, biotechnology companies and technology vendors. At Bluesphere, Mark works with drug companies and public sector organisations on Falsified Medicines Directive compliance and related issues. Mark is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and is the author of “Pharmaceutical Anti-Counterfeiting” (476pp, Wiley, N.Y., 2011).more

Chris Doyle

DirectorGenshone Transformation Limited

Chris has worked with the NHS, medical device and pharmaceutical manufacturers for his whole career since studying law at Cambridge University in the late 80s. He has very broad experience in operations, commercial and sales & marketing functions. In recent years he has focussed on Unique Device Identification, The Falsified Medicines Directive, the DQSA and NHS efficiency; delivering competitive advantage to manufacturers and suppliers through eProcurement. Until 2014 Chris was the Head of Healthcare at GS1 UK and he brings this specialist knowledge to his new consultancy Genshone Transformation Limited.more

Bawan A. Ahmed

Senior Pharmaceutical AssessorKurdistan Regional Government-Iraq

I’m a trained pharmacist and pharmaceutical scientist. I started my career as a clinical pharmacist for a couple of years and then as pharmaceutical assessor for the Kurdistan Regional Government-Iraq. My particular area of interest is investigating the influence of temperature & humidity on stability and quality of pharmaceuticals when stored outside guidelines and specifications. In addition, designing, developing and validating novel techniques for detection of counterfeit and fake medicines. Our work has been instrumental in developing an anti-counterfeit medicines programme in Iraq, which at the end of 2012 had successfully seized 400 tonnes of counterfeit medicines of major therapeutic classes that were previously rife in Iraq’s markets. As a result of my work I received a number of internationally recognised awards; most recently The Leadership in Pharmacy Award from The Royal Pharmaceutical Society.more

Michael Urso

Product Manager Pharma & Packaging SolutionsAtlantic Zeiser GmbH

Michael Urso, is product manager in the Pharma & Packaging Solutions division of Atlantic Zeiser. With over 13 year experience in the health care sector with insight in marketing and engineering his focus in on holistic soft- and hardware solutions for serialization and track & trace applications as well as on innovative label printing technology. He has been active as author for several publications in renowned packaging journals.more

Beth Haveman

Director, Anti-CounterfeitingGlobal Product Protection, Abbott

Beth Haveman joined Abbott way back in 1989 as a Transportation Specialist. Throughout her 27 years with Abbott, she has held management positions in Global Transportation, Supply Channel Services, Customer Service, Environmental Health and Safety and most recently Global Product Protection. Beth received her undergraduate degree from University of Minnesota, double majoring in International Relations and French. She then pursued her Masters Degree at a Graduate school called “Thunderbird” and has a Masters in International Management.more

Victoria Wilson

AssociateMishcon de Reya LLP

Victoria is a commercial litigator in Mishcon de Reya’s Intellectual Property Group. She advises on all aspects of brand protection specialising in the protection and enforcement of intellectual property and related rights. She has acted for clients in civil fraud claims and has represented clients in disputes in the High Court, IPEC and Court of Appeal, often acting in multi-jurisdictional disputes.more

Prof. Lee Cronin

Regius Chair of Chemistry
School of ChemistryUniversity of Glasgow

Lee Cronin is Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow; his work focusses on understanding self-assembly to develop functional molecular systems and engineering of emergent complex chemical systems aiming towards ‘inorganic biology’. His unique research team brings together synthetic chemists, biologists, chemical engineers, programmers, evolutionary theorists and roboticistsmore

Bentham Science Publishers is a major STM journal publisher of 116 titles and 200 plus open access journals and print/online book series (Bentham eBooks). Bentham Science answers the information needs of the pharmaceutical and biomedical research community. Leading journals include Current Drug Metabolism (Impact Factor 5.113) and Current Medicinal Chemistry (Impact Factor 4.859): • FREE online journals and information: www.benthamscience.com • Subscribe, Consortia, discounted global licenses and trials: marketing@benthamscience.org • To know more about our publications please visit www.benthamscience.commore

pharmaphorum drives innovation within the pharmaceutical industry, by bringing healthcare together through a suite of media services that help produce and disseminate thought leadership, combined with an online platform for communicating messages to a global audience.more

Medical News Today is the largest independent medical and health news site on the web – with over 8,000,000 monthly unique users it is ranked number one for medical news on all major search engines. Medical News Today is used by pharmaceutical, biotech and health organizations, advertising agencies, PR companies and vertical ad networks to deliver targeted disease/condition and general health campaigns. For more information contact peter@medicalnewstoday.com or visit www.medicalnewstoday.com.more

Technology Networks is an internationally recognised, online publisher that provides access to the latest scientific news, products, research, videos and posters. Technology Networks is an internationally recognised, online publisher that provides access to the latest scientific news, products, research, videos and posters. Our global community is made up of over 300,000 researchers and scientific professionals from the life science, drug discovery and analytical arenas. Our portfolio of 30 communities are available free of charge on Technology Networks.more

Anti-counterfeiting and supply chain security news from SecuringIndustry.com is a free-to-access information service that covers the issues surrounding supply chain and brand security. Our aim is to provide practical advice and intelligence to help manufacturers define and pursue their own strategies for tackling crime including counterfeiting, product diversion, adulteration and theft. We cover key developments in:
• coding and track-and-trace technologies;
• the evolution of data standards;
• overt, covert and forensic authentication systems;
• cargo thefts and shipment security;
• developments in the global regulatory environment;
• enforcement actions and case studies;
and much more The site incorporates breaking news and features, researched and written by specialist industry journalists and guest writers, as well as a regularly updated feed of external editorial from the world’s press, a comprehensive and intuitive directory of security-related goods, technologies and services, plus the latest market research and events in supply chain security across multiple industrial sectors. Our editorial mission is to identify the most important and relevant information in supply chain security and bring it into one place for our community of readers, with the ultimate aim of helping to protect the rights and welfare of the public and the interests and reputations of commercial organisations.more

In the realm of Pharmacy, where innovation is rapid, Pharmaceutical-Tech stands adept at conceptualizing unique ideas relevant to the B2B space. Pharmaceutical-Tech is essentially a B2B online business, technology media platform and global magazine that have under its wraps the largest global database of Pharmacy buyers and suppliers.
Pharmaceutical-Tech.com covers in-depth trends that shape industry dynamics and metamorphose global economics.
With services like search engine optimization, global magazine, social media marketing, product video showcase, e-mail marketing, e-newsletter sponsorship, banner advertising, event marketing and micro-website within our platform, www.pharmaceutical-tech.com has created a recognition that spans over a global audience, thereby revolutionizing how businesses transact.more

Premium

Systech is the global technology leader in anti-counterfeiting, product safety, consumer and brand protection. Trusted by 19 of the top 20 pharmaceutical companies, Systech unifies and optimizes enterprise serialization, track and trace, and authentication technologies to ensure regulatory compliance, mitigate risk, and drive efficiency and profitability.
For 30 years, Systech’s innovation has led best practices for key brands across the pharmaceutical, life science, food and beverage, and consumer packaged goods industries.more

Premium

Atlantic Zeiser is one of the leading providers of sophisticated individualization, serialization and track & trace solutions, to efficiently and seamlessly monitor product movements, securely verify authenticity, and reliably protect against counterfeiters. Especially for the pharmaceutical industry, Atlantic Zeiser offers tailored “one-stop solutions” that bring together the latest machine and printing technologies with intelligent and modular software architecture to ensure compliant, fast and efficient processes.
Atlantic Zeiser develops and produces all core technologies in-house. The centrepiece is the modular, scalable and future-proof serialization software MEDTRACKER which is able to adapt to process specific requirements and grows with your needs. MEDTRACKER easily interfaces with common ERP-systems and can be operated as production management platform from ISA level 1 to 4.more

Associate

Domino has a global reputation for the development and manufacture of coding, marking and printing technologies that satisfy the compliance and productivity requirements of manufacturers. Improved product identification through mass serialisation has been identified as a key tool in the fight against falsified and counterfeit medicines reaching patients. We have a complete range of technology for printing serialised and aggregated codes as well as the unrivalled expertise to help you become compliant with existing and emerging global legislation. As a member of the Coalition Against Illicit Trade, Domino is dedicated to fighting the trade of counterfeited and contraband goods.more

Exhibitor

Travtec Limited established in 1995, design and manufacture specialist product handling systems for the pharmaceutical industry, offering Falsified Medicines Directive (FMD) ready, track and trace solutions. As a proven expert in coding, marking and vision we offer customers a bespoke turnkey solutions to any serialisation/aggregation requirement.
Our systems are integrated with inkjet and laser printers, tamper evident labellers, print/apply & thermal transfer equipment, and vision, in major pharmaceutical companies around the world. We work in partnership with OEM’s to develop innovative new applications for both existing and under development products.more

Exhibitor

Innovia Films founded in 1933, is a major producer of Biaxially Oriented Polypropylene (BOPP) and Cellulose (NatureFlex™ & Cellophane™) Films with production sites in Australia, Belgium, the UK and the USA. The company holds a leading global position in the markets for labels and security films, high performance coated packaging, tobacco overwrap and renewable and compostable films.
Worldwide Innovia Films employs some 1,350 people, with a focus on high quality speciality products, strong customer relationships, R&D, and unsurpassed service. Total annual film capacity of our business currently stands at more than 120,000 tonnes which is sold into over 100 countries.more

SANOFI is committed to fight against fake medicine to protect patient’s health and was able to detail its global strategy in this regards.

Sanofi

It was really a pleasure to attend this event. What I really appreciated was the quality of the speakers and the wide range of topics we were discussing. This was not only centered on the packaging but we could also have insights on pharma companies strategies and European organization that deals with online pharmacies.

Novartis

Thank you for your kindness. I am highly satisfied with the event.

Blood transfusion, Slovenia

It was a real pleasure to communicate with all of you – the team of Recunnect is brilliant. The conference was very informative and up-to-date. I learned very specific things from first hands about new technologies in packaging, serialization preventing from medicines counterfeiting.

Brno

Counterfeiting of medicines is a global health problem; this conference has brought the pharma industry closer to understand this.

NEPAD Council

Very interesting and exciting to share ideas with other peers and see what other companies are doing in the area of anti-counterfeiting, Track & Trace and serialisation.

Systec & Services GmbH

Recunnect does a great job in bringing together key global decision makers to share best practice – the Anti-Counterfeiting Pharma conference is fast becoming a must attend event in the calendar.

GS1 UK

I found the conference beneficial and it was a good opportunity for networking.

Fisher Clinical Services GmbH

’Travtec enjoyed another successful Anti Counterfeit Conference with Recunnect at the Strand Palace Hotel in London last week (9th & 10th March). With our demo rigs on hand we were able to show in real time serialisation and also aggregation to those who attended.
There were many very interesting and knowledgeable speakers over the two days and I’m sure we all learnt from the varied views and aspects discussed.

Travtec Limited

The second ACF Pharma 2016 was very useful for my company. As a supplier of some of the top pharma companies, this has helped me a lot to further understand some trends of the pharma industry and as a consequence, offer to my customers the right solutions in the different areas. On top, good moment to build more solid business network.

Nekicesa Packaging

Very interesting and informative. Thank you.

Videojet Technologies Limited

We really found the event fruitful. Thank you for your collaboration and great support.

Nekicesa Packaging

Terrific opportunity to see topic from different perspectives.

Solvias

Thank you for hosting this successful & memorable conference. The topic of the conference was excellent, as well as the quality of speakers. The venue was outstanding and very well organized conference. Overall, I had a great time and looking forward for your subsequent events.

Kurdistan Medical Control Agency

It was really a pleasure to attend this event.What I really appreciated was the quality of the speakers and the wide range of topics we were discussing. This was not only centered on the packaging but we could also have insights on pharma companies strategies and European organization that deals with online pharmacies

Franck (Novartis)

High profile of the pharmaceutical companies’ delegates

IGB srl

SANOFI is committed to fight against fake medicine to protect patient’s health and was able to detail its global strategy in this regards

Edmond d’Arvieu

Thank you for your kindness. I am highly satisfied with the event

Marjana (Blood transfusion, Slovenia)

Counterfeiting of medicines is a global health problem; this conference has brought the pharma industry closer to understand this

Sina

It was a pleasure to attend the conference, and we did find it quite interesting and eye opening.

Banwo Ighodalo

We are please to attend the event and Innvalley will continue to innovate anti counterfeit solutions in fighting fake medicine.